ASNAU SENATE MEETING #2

TWENTY FOURTH SESSION OFFICIAL MINUTES

Date: September 1st, 2011 Number on council: 12 Number present:

Prepared by Makenzie Mastrud Senate Chair Sidney West called the Senate meeting of the 2011-2012 Senate to order at 4:00 P.M. in the Havasupai Room A & B of the University Union.

Roll Call The following Senators were not present at the meeting:

-Gavin Walton

Approval of Minutes Motion: Senator Buchta

Second: Senator Cross Discussion: None

Vote: Unanimous Call to the Audience

None Unfinished Business

None New Action Business

Motion: Senator Bingham to table item D Second: Senator Libby

Discussion: None Vote: Unanimous

Motion: Senator Buchta to open item A for discussion Second: Senator Alcorn

Discussion: None Vote: Unanimous

Motion: Senator Libby to close discussion Second: Senator Woodhouse

Discussion: None Vote: Unanimous

Motion: Senator Lee to make all clubs official Second: Senator Buchta

Discussion: None Vote: Unanimous

Executive report

a. President- Blaise Caudill -Working on filling the open Senator position, unable to hold interviews at this time because the position was just recently opened. The complete senate is coming soon.

-Working with the NAU Supreme Court, interviewing students this week that were nominated by faculty members. There are no returning Supreme Court members from last year so we are looking forward so meeting a whole new staff.

-Meet with president Haegar about the new Health and Learning Center, so many students are supporting the facility and making it a great success. -Kick off event next week the 7th in DuBois ballroom at 6pm. We have collected information from 700-800 students that are interested. We did phone banking last week, but only reached 100 people so please contact more during your office hours. -ASNAU meet and greet after this

-Planning on writing a weekly update to send out to the entire student body, if you have anything you want included please let me know. b. Vice President of Student affairs- Sammy Smart - We filled four buses to take down to Tucson for the U of A. We need help calling all of the students on these buses to review guidelines with them. If you want to help get students on the bus then meet behind Cline at 10:15 on game day. -Next Saturday is the first home game, will be the grand opening of the new dome and Lumberyard. We need help running the tailgater (if you sign up you are NOT allowed to be intoxicated),the first shift starts at 11am-1:30 and the second starts at 1 and goes until 3. -Also need people to man the Lumberyard. After the first game we will hand this off to other organizations. -Planning on doing give aways at home games. First game we are looking at horns. Two different companies in mind, one selling yellow horns for a total of $744 plus shipping and the other company selling plan white horns for $1.66 per horn (total not known). -Keep checking e-mails because I will need bills drafted for these give aways. -Need a banner company to make one for the Lumberyard -KJack is Djing the first tailgater, says they will play “party” music for everyone to enjoy. -We are not planning on kicking out students that are not wearing gold in the Lumberyard for the first game, but after that we will.

c. Vice President of Academic Affairs- Sidney West -Meet with academic standards committee to find out what they are doing. -Senators, please keep desk plates in mail boxes and any poster in you mail boxes need to be hung up in the college you are in charge of. d. Chief of Staff- Chloe Olson -Kick off event on the 7th, we are tableing for the event in the union on the 6th from 11am-1pm and phone banking on the 6th at 6pm. Please come at 4pm to help set up and get everything ready -Working with SUN Entertainment to plan carnival. Will be on October 20th, homecoming weekend. Staff Reports

A. ASA- Chelsea Byers, Wes Enns, Jenn Hancock - Please help phone bank to get more interns, we have three right now and would like 27 more.

B. Public Relations- Julia Lesniak - Please hang up football posters in your college

C. Special events- Caitlin Heck, Rachel Rogala - Not present

D. NSO- Erick Gonzalez, Heather Reeves -Meeting tomorrow together to discuss projects.

Committee Reports A. Appropriations: Meeting time is Tuesday from 6pm-7pm

B. Legislative: Working on finalizing a meeting time

Senator Reports

A. Nate Alcorn – E-mailed clubs and starting meetings with them next week. B. Hal Bingham – E-mailed clubs and starting meetings with them next week. C. Anthony Buchta – In the process of writing a bill and two OA’s.

D. Samantha Cortez– E-mailing clubs E. Samantha Cross – E-mailing clubs tomorrow.

F. Ryan Lee – E-mailed clubs and starting meetings with them next week. G. Zach Libby – In the process of writing four OA’s and a bill. Also e-mailing clubs and meeting with them. H. Annsley Niemann– E-mailed clubs and starting meetings with them next week. J. Matthew Villa – E-mailed clubs and starting meetings with them next week. K. Gavin Walton – None

L. Shayla Woodhouse – Spoke with dean’s secretary about meeting time. Advisor Reports (Rick Brandel and Art Farmer)

Rick Brandel – Kudos to Julia for helping injured bike rider this morning. Kudos to exec members for planning such an awesome retreat and being so on top of things. Remember to stay on top of school work even though you are involved in ASNAU, have fun but still do good in school.

Art Farmer – Make sure to stop by and personally introduce yourself to Sherri, she is awesome and has a lot of good things coming out of her office already. Also spread the word about Sherri’s service to students. Discussion Items None

Announcements None

Adjournment Motion: Senator Bingham

Second: Senator Libby Unanimous

4:38 P.M.